One of the benefits of experience is that lessons are learned. It is unfortunate that our…
Canada’s Business
Social mobility has slowed
From time immemorial North American culture has maintained that “anything is possible;”…
A supercycle
Why is our economy behaving so differently this time? Ordinarily, after a business contraction…
Long overdue
Without doubt, for many decades the Ministry of Immigration has been among the worst branches of…
Remaking suburbia so people want to live there
When approaching the outskirts of Canada’s cities, particularly at intersections, one sees…
Reckless consumers
During the so-called Gilded Age in the United States in the later part of the 19th century, a…
Rampant hypocrisy over Canadas tar sands
Among the most blatant examples of hypocrisy are the recent cries emanating from environmentalists.…
A turning point
Clearly, the economy now is at a major turning point; what economists call “an inflection…
Not so
The well-known and highly respected publication The Economist, in a recent lead article entitled…
Angry customers
Angry customers have become the new norm. Almost everyone is displeased by the way they are treated…
Not really dead
Based on misleading data, inflation seems to be almost non-existent. One should not dismiss the…
Busy-ness
Many of us question just what executives actually do to warrant their huge financial rewards. Once…
Canadian money for Canadians
The recently announced changes by the Canada Pension Plan (CPP)board should arouse the ire of all…
Risk averse
Over the past five years stock markets have soared, approximately doubling, but that was…
Disappointing ‘capex’
For an economy to prosper, companies must spend money on new plants and equipment – capital…